Lecture 17: More Tableau
Nick Huntington-Klein
02 July, 2022
Tableau
- Last time we got some basic graphs going and got familiar with the
software
- This time we’ll go a little deeper!
- First, working our way around the decoration and customization
options
- Then, making some more complex graphs with Table Calculations and
Shelves
Decoration
- We can adjust the presentation of most elements of the graph by
double clicking on them, Excel style
- For example, axes
- From here we can adjust tick marks, scale, consistency of scale
across multi-part graphs, and numerical formatting, as well as things
like “include 0 on the axis or no?”
Decoration
- Let’s take the example worksheet and walk through adjusting the
axis
- Look at Sheet 1
- Make the y-axis tick marks percentages with one decimal place
- And make the x-axis only have ticks on days 0, 10, 20, 30.
- Also change axis titles to “Day of Month” and “Percent
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Decoration

Decoration

The Result
